PeterPan Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I need to buy my mother a new vac, and she has carpeted stairs (not thick plus, but needs a beater bar). Options I'm down to: 1) Buy an upright that has a long hose with the petmate attachment, and that attachment is how she'll clean her stairs. Maybe a Eureka MyVac... 2) Buy something cute like the Hoover Platinum that has a separate small canister to run tools but still no petmate, meaning she'd need a small dust buster style vac with beater bar to do her stairs. That's still under pricepoint, so ok. 3) Go with a nice canister vac. I have a canister vac, and I like it! Thing is, their house is kind of tiny, with thin-legged antique furniture and whatnot. My dd thinks a canister would be horribly in there and that nimble is important. I'm looking at the purple kenmore. Dyson is out. I can't find one at my pricepoint. Miele isn't my pricepoint. $300 is my price point. I need her to be able to sweep her boring carpet (not too thick, not too new), tidy the edges of hardwood showing, sweep the carpeted stairs, and sweep the linoleum. Oh, and it needs a HEPA because of the CAT. :coolgleamA: So what say you? Any advice? The carpeted stairs make a U and have a couple wedge shapes, so I don't think she'd be able to get all of them with the big head of the canister. I've just looked at these till I've gone in circles. Give it to me straight. What should I get? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 My Shark vacuum allows me to detach the wheels so I can hold just the canister-plus-hose portion to do stairs. It also has an attachment that works just like the Animal attachment from my not so dearly departed Dyson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I do mine with the yellow one in the pic. It works well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2samlibby Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I do mine with one you have pictured. I love it. Works well and small to handle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan C. Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 The Eureka was SO HEAVY. I couldn't even use ours..... It was a good excuse to get others to do the vacuuming. My option is too expensive, but my vacuumers are growing up. Its a SEBO Upright, with extra hose piece and a stair vacuum attachment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammi K Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 DH is doing it right now as I type! We have a Dyson and use the attachment on the hose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dzingirl Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I have a Bissell with turbo brush attachment. My ILs got it for us last Christmas and I love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethben Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Just for the snarky reply...You take your regular upright vacuum cleaner and use the hose attachment to vacuum the stairs. You become unaware that you ran out of hose length about 3/4 the way down the stairs. You then unwillingly allow the upright vacuum to fall down the stairs resulting in a large hole in your drywall. After that, you fix the hole with drywall tape and plaster (which you know how to do because your dad taught you after you backed the car through the back of the garage when you were 16) and drive down to the paint store to successfully (yay!) match the paint covering your very large patch job. Vacuuming the stairs only has to take you about a week. Easy Peasy. Beth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmiraGulch Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 DH is doing it right now as I type! We have a Dyson and use the attachment on the hose. Me, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I find that my canister hose with the upolestry brush cleans better than the special pet attachment with a beater from my old vacuum. I say buy all of the suction you can afford and worry less about whether or not the brushes spin. Amazon has a Meile for $329 that's Prime eligible. http://www.amazon.com/Miele-S2121-Olympus-Canister-Cleaner/dp/B002YPUO5U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashfern Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I have a Eureka Airspeed with stair & upholstery attachment. It has a HEPA filter and it's bagless. It replaced my 10 yr old Dyson. It got top ratings from Consumer Reports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Dd14 has this as a weekly chore. She uses a small shop vac to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Option #2. Does she have an upright for the rest of her carpet? Or is it only the stairs that are carpeted? Or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 I didn't realize how popular the little handvacs are for stairs! Well cool, that's what I'm pursuing then. Thanks ladies! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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